Employability and Leadership Skill Enhancement Networks (ELSEN)
Don Bosco Arts & Science College, Angadikadavu offers ELSEN as a special package to students to counter the acute unemployment problem facing the nation. Students are trained here not just to be qualified but to be competent for a lucrative career suited to their aptitude in the following ways:
English Proficiency Certificate Course
Since fluency in English is a requisite for a successful profession, all the students who join the college are given a week-long 25-hour intensive practical-oriented English Proficiency Certificate Course in the first semester itself.
- Students on rotation deliver speeches in English in the classroom regularly.
- Students are given opportunity to give three-minute messages in English during the Morning Assembly.
- The Hindu newspaper is given to all the students at a discount rate for English proficiency enhancement.
Finishing School Soft Skill Certificate Course
Don Bosco Arts & Science College has been networking with three professional corporate training academies Privartan, Blue Point, and Synergy, offering specialized soft skill training to our students to equip them for impressive performance in job interviews and group discussions, to tutor them for resume preparation, self-marketing, corporate etiquette, and physical grooming, and to mould them into self-confident, articulate, smart, and employable professionals.
Mentoring Certificate
The Mentoring Department ensures that every student in the college is personally guided, monitored and assisted by a Mentor throughout the years of their studies in the college, with frequent personal meetings, friendly accompaniment, timely interventions, and the right channelization of their potentials. A certificate is issued to all the students at the end of their studies carrying their personality strengths attested by the Principal and the Mentor.
Leadership Proficiency Training and Scholarship
The students who join the college are given a wide range of opportunities to excel in non-academic realms, organizing high-profile campus fests and intercollegiate fetes. Students are sculpted into prolific leaders, with their maximum involvement in extracurricular activities:
- DISC: Donbosco International Silverscreen Carnival, hosted by the Department of Journalism
- COMET: Commerce Fest, hosted by the Department of Commerce
- SLATE: Literature Fest, hosted by the Department of English
- EQUINOX: Management Fest, hosted by the Department of Management
- DISBEE: Spell Bee Fest, hosted by the PG Department of English
- National Social Work Research Conference: Hosted by the Department of Social Work
- Interdepartmental and Intercollegiate Arts & Sports Fests: Students are offered professional training to participate and win prizes in university level competitions, to be recognized as best performers.
The Alumni Association presents special scholarships to the best leader from every batch, and to the best intercollegiate performers from PG and UG sections.
